The military expert, reserve colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and former spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (2014–2017) Vladyslav Seleznyov said on Espreso.“Why do I focus on the Zaporizhzhia direction? The thing is that the key factor affecting the battlefield situation is resources. Accordingly, the redeployment of additional resources to this section of the front by the enemy army is not accidental. In the south of Zaporizhzhia, as well as in the south of Kherson region, the enemy has concentrated a powerful grouping of troops. Up to 120,000, by some estimates, of enemy soldiers are there,” he said.The expert added that there was a period of relative stagnation.“The enemy tried to find weak points in our defense; nothing came of it for a while, until recently the enemy managed to act quite effectively, and he de facto occupied Kamianske except for several observation posts and our platoon strongpoints. Even his forward assault unit reached the southern outskirts of Stepnohirsk,” Seleznyov emphasized.He noted that at that time Ukraine managed to push the enemy back, but the enemy is trying to attack again.“In other words, the enemy found a weakness in our defense. Traditionally, the enemy acts in such a way: having found weak spots in our defense, it throws all nearby reserves and resources into that hell of war. So I think it is no accident that Putin’s army focuses its attention on this front section, because it believes it can achieve certain results. On other sections of the front, as we see, the enemy has no serious territorial gains, and the pace of the enemy’s advance, for example, last week dropped to 36 sq. km,” the expert said.He added that these are the lowest figures since the spring of this year.“In other words, the enemy, searching for weak points in our defense, is ready to act quite flexibly, to maneuver with its forces and means. And this time the enemy’s activity is not accidental, because it believes that by bringing in the appropriate forces and means it will be able to advance closer to Zaporizhzhia and then use tube artillery against that regional center. Moreover, I do not think that Putin will prioritize creating chaos and disorder in Zaporizhzhia — that is not a principal objective for him,” Seleznyov said.The expert believes that for Putin the principal concern is stable industrial production, in particular defense-industry enterprises in Zaporizhzhia.“To ruin these facilities the enemy will be ready to expend significant effort and literally pile up the bodies of its soldiers as it moves closer to the southern outskirts of Zaporizhzhia. What will come of that? The answer, in my view, is obvious: resources. The facts about resources and the factor of steady, effective organization of our defense will be helpful for us. I hope that the appropriate decisions, including personnel ones, will be taken in time, and we will be able to keep our lines and positions intact. In principle, we have gone through this, mirroring it during our offensive campaign in summer 2023. Then fortifications and Russian resistance did not allow us to expand the scale of our counteroffensive. The maximum depth of penetration into enemy positions then reached about 15 km. I hope that this time we will be able to implement a similar defensive case and the enemy will have no chance to advance into the depth of Zaporizhzhia region,” he concluded.